HERRING PISHERY. 



ferred ; the manner in which they are conveyed into the interior 

 of the country, and the mode of cooking and eating them ? 



The quantity of white faked herrings confumed during the laft 

 two or three years in Germany (including all the dominions of 

 the king of Pruflia) may be eftimated at about an hundred and 

 thirty thoufand barrels annually, which is much lefs, however, 

 than ufed to be confumed in that country, as complaints are con- 

 tinually heard at prefent in Germany about the fcarcity of that 

 article. The grounds on which I eftimate the confumption of 

 white faked herrings in Germany during the laft two or three 

 years, are the following : In the year 1798, the exadl number 

 of barrels imported to Hamburgh was 12 674, and in 1799* 

 they amounted exactly to 13,067, as appears from the printed 

 lifts which are annually publiflied at Hamburgh. J do not know 

 the exact number imporred at Bremen within the laft two years ; 

 but according to a lift of the year 1790, the number of barrels 

 of herrings brought to that part amounted to 10,205, and in the 

 fame year the number of barrels of herrings brought to Ham- 

 burgh, amounted to 17,179. If we make therefore a propor- 

 tional deduction for Bremen, we muft eftimate the prefent im- 

 portation then at only about 8,000. The port of Altona, which 

 is contiguous to Hamburgh, is fupplied by the bufTes, which are 

 fitted out at Altona, and carry on the herring fifhery from the 

 Shetland Iflands Southward, in the fame manner as the Dutch 

 ufed to do. The number of bufTes, which failed in 1799 from 

 Altona, amounted to about 26, as I was lately informed there ; 

 and as it is a very moderate eftimate that each of thefe buffes 

 caught a thoufand barrels between the 24th of June and the end 

 of the fifhing feafon, we may aflume that at leifl 26,000 barrels 

 were brought to Altona in 1799. The exaft number of buffes 

 which failed from Emden laft year I do not know ; but as 40 

 have failed from that port feveral years ago, and there is no 

 reafon to fuppofe that their number has diminished fince the 

 Dutch have been prevented from getting out, we fhall hardly 

 exceed the truth, if we fuppofe that at leaft 40,000 barrels were 



brought 



